11-03-2009, 09:58 AM
In Amerika staan we nu ook op de (honkbal)kaart:
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200903103971723
Quote:Ongelofelijk.
It's the only word that describes what the baseball team from The Netherlands accomplished Tuesday at the World Baseball Classic, and if you didn't know that it was Dutch for incredible or unbelievable or miraculous, well, you've just learned the second thing about this country that you might not forget anytime soon.
With their beyond-dramatic 2-1 victory comeback in 11 innings over the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, their second win over a prohibitive tournament favorite, the unheralded Dutchmen have advanced to the second round on the heels of two of the biggest upsets in international baseball history.
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POOL D: SAN JUAN
That has certainly been true in this pool, the site of the remarkable double-Dutch feat and astonishingly quick Dominican exit. Today at 5:30 p.m. ET, the Netherlands will meet Puerto Rico to determine the winner of the pool, but as Delmonico said while basking in the glow of Tuesday's monumental win, maybe the result of that game won't be the most important thing on the Dutch team's mind heading into Round 2. "I know for me it's going to be hard to go to sleep just from the excitement of all of this," Delmonico said. "We'll get up in the morning and tee it up tomorrow and see what we can do. We've got our hands full, but the good thing about it is we're both going to Miami."
Sixteen teams will officially be down to eight by the end of Wednesday as the stakes get higher and the baseball gets more intense.
And that's what makes the World Baseball Classic one ongelofelijk event.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200903103971723
Mijn gras is groener